Scandinavia

[original PM]

so why do so few people live there?

Mainly because there is fook all there

[DodgyAgent]

I think Scandinavia is modelling itself on Logans Run

Logan’s Run: A Progressive Utopia – William M. Briggs

In order to preserve the environment and its precious resources, humans are locked inside of opaque domes and forbidden to know of the outside world. There are no leaders, no poor, no rich, no ill, no sexism, no racism. The tyranny of differential ability has been rendered moot: talent is of no use, since there is nothing that need be accomplished. There is nothing to aspire to, no challenges that could cause disparities to exist.

The Ideal Government has been programmed into an all-powerful, all-seeing computer by (it is assumed) the most brilliant minds. The computer’s software is complete: all human interactions have been rigorously either prescribed or proscribed. All that is not forbidden is mandatory.

There is no love. There is no marriage. All license and vice is allowed, even encouraged. If you can catch it and it doesn’t fight back, you can and should have sex with it. There is no risk of pregnancy or of parenthood. Babies, conceived technologically, with those less than perfect culled, are born in the factory-like Nursery. Curiosity about children is seen as perverted. The words “mother” and “father” are virtually unknown. The State raises the children according to the best scientific principles, instilling from birth the belief the State Knows Best. Some children are allowed to run wild, the world indifferent to their fate, until they reach puberty and thus become attractive (and useful) to the Dome’s citizens.

When a person becomes 30, he is ritually killed so that he might not use up more resources than his “fair share.” The State has become the sole religion. Those undergoing this voluntarily euthanasia (aschimothusia) are told they will be “renewed”, a vague, never wholly explained process wherein it is believed the “essence” of the person will be “input” into the next new baby. This is not a theology derived from a deity: just an unadorned dictate from the State.

Those who refuse renewal and who value their lives and who flee from the State’s butchery are called “runners”. Runners are pursued by “Sandmen” who pitilessly slay the runners. The runners believe in a place where the State does not control every aspect of a person’s life. This place is called Sanctuary.

[shaunbhoy]

The thing which puts me off Scandinavia is the short days in the winter. The rest of it looks good.

Try going out for a few beers without needing a second mortgage.

[PurpleGorilla]

Try going out for a few beers without needing a second mortgage.

That doesn't bother me tbh not a big drinker.

[PurpleGorilla]

so why do so few people live there?

Snow, SAD, herring?

[WTFH]

Scandinavia

Snow, SAD, herring?

Sauna.

Would you want to live there if there was a risk of seeing FLC naked in a sauna?